| Expert Name | Mr. Arie Shimshon Issar |
| Title | Prof. Emeritus |
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| Institution | Ben Gurion University of the Negev |
| City | Sede Boqer |
| Country | Israel |
| Telephone | 972 7 659 6901 |
| Email | issar(at)bgumail.bgu.ac.il |
| Work Experience | 1961-1964: Advisor to the Govt. of Iran with the FAO/UN for the development of ground water resources
1974-1980: Consultant International Atomic Agency Project to Iran for the application of isotopes in hydrogeological investigations, Consultant to International Cooperation Dept. Min. of Foreign Affairs, Govt. of Israel ground water development projects in Venezuela, Columbia, Korea, Ceylon, Nepal, Tanzania and Brazil.
1980-1981: Member of the advisory committee to the Israel Water Commissioner on Scientific Research
1981-1982: Rapporteur and member of working group of UNESCO for hydrology of arid and semi-arid regions
1982: Member of public committee for long term national water policy for Israel. Member of UNESCO team of paleo-hydrology of low latitude deserts
1985: Rapporteur, Project 3.2 - Impact of Climate Change on Hydrological and Socio Economic Systems. International Hydrological Program UNESCO
1990: Consultant to the Ministry of Arid and Semi Arid Zones, Govt. of Kenya |
| Qualifications | Ph.D., Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1961: Thesis, The Hydrogeology of the Central Coastal Plain of Israel |
| Number of Publications | 100 |
| Awards | 1980: Holder of the Alain Poher Chair in Hydrogeology of Arid Zones
1985: Ernest D. Bergmann Prize for Special Scientific Contributions to the Development of the Negev |
| Other Activities | - Geological Society of Israel
- International Association of Hydrogeologists
- Association of Geoscientists for International Development
- American Water Resources Association
- American Geophysical Union |
| Publications | 1. Issar, A.S., 1995: Impacts of climate variations on water management and related socioeconomic systems technical documents in Hydrology, IHP-UNESCO, Paris, SC.95/Ws.26, 97 p.
2. Issar, A.S., 1997: Climate change: is it a positive or negative process? In: Environmental change and the Mediterranean. The United University. Presentation made at ht e UNU headquarters on 15 July 1996, and at the Global Environment Information Center (GEIC) on 14 November 1996, Tokyo, Japan;
3. Eilon, A.M., Gev, I., Berliner, P., and Issar, A.S., 1995: The effect of forestation on a shallow groundwater reservoir in an Arid Sand Dune Terrain. Journal of Arid Land Studies, 58, 259-262;
4. Issar, A.S., Resnick Eds. 1996: Runoff, Infiltration and Subsurface flow of water in arid and semi-arid region. Kluwer.
5. Issar, A.S., Brown, N., Eds. 1998: Water, Environment and Society in times of climate change, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. |
| Discipline | Natural Resource Management |
| Last updated | 09/05/2007 12:09:00 |
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